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Nicholas Deshais

Bio:Nicholas Deshais is a former news editor and staff writer for The Inlander. He has reported on city, county and state politics, as well as medical marijuana, transportation and development. In May 2012, he was named as a finalist for the prestigious Livingston Award for an Inlander story about (now former) Assistant...

Nicholas Deshais is a former news editor and staff writer for The Inlander. He has reported on city, county and state politics, as well as medical marijuana, transportation and development. In May 2012, he was named as a finalist for the prestigious Livingston Award for an Inlander story about (now former) Assistant City Attorney Rocky Treppiedi and his involvement in the Otto Zehm case. Previously, Deshais reported for Portland’s altweekly, Willamette Week, and the daily Times Herald in Port Huron, Michigan.

Toys are stacked on the front porch of the Isabella House, but the kids are nowhere to be seen. Inside the front door and behind a red, velvety curtain in the imposing 113-year-old house on the edge of Coeur d’Alene Park in Browne’s Addition, their playroom is also abandoned.

Inmates across Washington and Idaho are discovering the ancient exercise while behind bars

By Nicholas Deshais

Picture if you can a man serving a life sentence in prison for a violent crime. Before him and a dozen others like him is a slight woman teaching them to stretch purposefully, breathe mindfully and to practice ahimsa, a tenet of hatha yoga that is Sanskrit for “do no harm.

Veterinary surgeon Joseph Harari has landed in the Inland Northwest after many travels

By Nicholas Deshais

In 1976, an Israeli-born, New Jersey native arrived in Pullman. After a lifetime in tight, urban spaces, a trip across the country and four rejections, Joseph Harari had finally been accepted to study veterinary medicine in this small, rural, middle-of-nowhere, land grant-university town.

Working after retirement will make you happier and healthier — all while earning a paycheck

By Nicholas Deshais

Cris Mudd wasn’t a big fan of being retired. After teaching in the athletic department at the Community Colleges of Spokane for decades, Mudd, 66, did what so many people do in middle age. She left the nation’s workforce.

How the Inland Northwest was shaped by Earth's greatest floods.

As politicians fight over faith, more and more people are losing it.

By Nicholas Deshais

It´s Sunday in Moscow, Idaho, and all eyes turn to Tyler Palmer.
“I couldn’t be happier,” he tells the group congregated before him. Palmer, 32, has a boyish quality to him, despite the day or two of stubble on his face. The sleeves of his military-style shirt are rolled up.
Every Sunday, Palmer and the people here meet to talk about their beliefs. Unlike the vast majority of Americans, what binds them together isn’t a shared faith, but rather a shared faithlessness.

Activists cause records requests to triple at Spokane Public Schools.

By Nicholas Deshais

%uFFFD€œThey probably make up 70 percent of the time, I%uFFFD€™d say,%uFFFD€%uFFFD Anderson says of the time needed to process requests made by Laurie Rogers, Breean Treffry and Paul LeCoq, three outspoken critics of the district. %uFFFD€œThe nature of the requests are getting more and more expansive.

Democrats say a rising star was taken out by GOP mapmaking.

By Nicholas Deshais

But as a longtime Democratic Party functionary, he has worked behind the scenes as a policy advisor and campaign manager for people whose names you would recognize: U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell, former state Sen. Chris Marr, congressional candidate Don Barbieri.

New work from Jonathan Lethem. Plus, an election app from the New York Times and the source of much Internet madness.

By Nicholas Deshais

quickly, so refresh, refresh, refresh! At one point last week, the site featured a link to Lettermon.com, which satirized David Letterman and turned him Rasta; photos of Michael Cera and Hitlerâeuro;™s mom (they look alike!); and a video of a former Australian premier chugging a beer.

How we'll live longer, and why this may not be good for us.

By Nicholas Deshais

Huguette Clark died last year at the age of 104, obituaries spoke of the immense wealth she had inherited from her father, a Montana copper baron who had bought himself a U.S. Senate seat and, in the early 1900s, founded Las Vegas. At the time of her death, she had $500 million and owned a 42-room âeuro;œapartmentâeuro;� right on Central Park in Manhattan.

New leadership takes over in Spokane, promising change

By Nicholas Deshais

âeuro;œImmediatley today, Rocky is no longer the police adviser,âeuro;� Condon says. He added that he still didnâeuro;™t trust Treppiediâeuro;™s legal opinions, but that the longtime, and controversial, city attorneyâeuro;™s employment status is not yet settled..

A national eye on Inland Northwest edibles

By Nicholas Deshais and Daniel Walters

âeuro;œHotellingâeuro;™s law describes a tendency for competing firms to end up making their products as similar as possible,âeuro;� Caitlin Knowles Myers, an economist at Middlebury College in Vermont, told NPR. âeuro;œThis could mean that theyâeuro;™re producing virtually identical goods or that theyâeuro;™re locating next to each other spatially.

Trees in court, computers in classrooms and getting out of Europe

By Joe O'Sullivan, Nicholas Deshais, Chris Stein, and Daniel Walters

The KOOTENAI ENVIRONMENTAL ALLIANCE last week filed suit against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to prevent the removal of 500 trees that sit atop the Rosenberry Levee, located along Lake Coeur dâeuro;™Alene to the south and west of North Idaho College.